Show A AM mile e the measurement measure men t to which we usually refer by this name is what can be more particularly called the statute mile it equals eight furlongs each of yards or feet in all there is another milea mile the geographical or nautical this mile is one sixteenth of a degree of latitude or feet the word comes to us from the latin word mille meaning a thousand says london answers magazine the roman mile was 1000 paces they measured a P pace a ce as the distance between the points where the same heel came down in making a stride the roman pace which we should regard as two paces was reckoned at about five feet this made the roman koman mile feet noticeably shorter than theopile measurement we use today |